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PATENTED JUNE 19, 1906.

s. F. RANDALL.

GAME. APPLICATION FILED DBO. 9| 190.5.

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GAM-si- To all whomltmay. concern:

Be it known that If, SAMUEL F. RANDALL', a citizengoffthe UnitedStates,and a-resident of Chicago, county of Cook, andState of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and.. useful Improvements in Games, of .whichl thefollowing is a specification 'andwhichareillustrated n in theaccompanying drawings, forming al part thereof. A

The invention relates to a game or puzzle adapted to be used by a singleplayer, and has for its object to provide a device which shall be ofsimple and inexpensive construction and shall afford competent 4means ofobtaining entertainment or instruction.

' he invention contemplates a board anda i plurality of pieces movableover the board,po

' manner, so that it may be readily distinguished from all of theothers, and the method of play is to shift the pieces, moving them onlyfrom one position to a vacant position next adjacent in such a way as tomake a vacant position next adjacent the peculiarly-designated piece,which may then e moved in a similar manner. The object of the play is tomove the peculiarly-designated piece onto each of the home positionsofthe other pieces and back to its own positions, eachiof the remainingpieces when this hits been accomplished occupying its original p ace. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a deviceinvolving the invention, the cover being removed and i some of the`parts beingbroken away. Fig.

2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 shows a detail of the device Idrawnin perspective. Fig. 4 is a detail plan view showing a modication of theinvention, and Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view ofthe cover for the deviceshown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Preferably the board for play vtakes ,the form of a shallow tray or box10, having a removable cover 11 and within which playingpieces 12 may beinclosed. As shown, these pieces are square, and sixteen of them areproj vided, and the bottom board of the box is t Specification ofLetters Patent. Application iledDecemberQ, 1905. Seria1:No.291,054.

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ruled into spaces 13the size and shape. ofthe pieces 12 andiisit'self'of suchsize and `shape asy to provide a space 13 asa-.homeposition for veach of the pieces. and-an additional or vacant space 1.4,onto whichfone of the pieces may be moved.v In the formpf. constructionillustrated in the drawings, the space 1.4 is formed, in effect, as analcove in the wall of the box the floor being extended into the alcove.A

Each of the pieces 12 is marked to distinguish it from all of theothers, one ofthem, as

1 6, being preferably marked in a way'peculi ar to itself-as, forexample, by its being made of a dierent color or material, as shownandthe remaining pieces being marked in=` any convenient way, as by meansof the letters y15. A mark, as the letters 17 or the coloring or shading18, is applied to the board 10 upon each of the spaces 13, which areintended as -home positions for the pieces 12 to correspond with themark upon the piece for which the space is so intended.

In playing the game, all of the pieces 12.

having been iirst placed upon the correspondingly-marked positions 13 ofthe board 10, the pieces are shifted one at a time by sliding them uponthe surface of the board, so. as to permit the piece 16 to be moved inthe same manner successively onto each of the spaces 13 originallyoccupied by one of the other pieces, and to finally move the piece 16back to itsoriginal position and all of the remaining pieces to the homepositions from which they were originally started. The object of the`game is to accomplish this result with the least number of moves of allthe pieces.

o As the device is shown in Figs. 1 and 5 of the drawings, it will beobserved that the piece 12, which is marked with the letter c,

must first be moved to the vacant space 14,

after which the piece 16 may be moved to the home position of the piecea, or by ,first shifting the pieces designated d and e the piece 16 maybe moved to the home position of the piece e upon its iirst move, itbeing immaterial .in which direction the piece 16 is made to travel overthe board. The play is facilitated by means of a diagram 19 of the board10, marked upon the inner face of the cover 11, Fig. 5.

- The playing-pieces may be marked in any way desired, that illustratedin Figs. l, 3, and' 5 being merely a conventional method employed forthe purpose of distinguishing IOO IIO

the pieces. An interesting game, however, may be provided by marking thepieces as in- Fig. A, the piece 16 there being designated a Watchman andthe marked to indicate the buildings at which he is to call in makinghis round.

l claim as my inventionl. In a device of the kind described, incombination, a boX having an alcove in its Wall7 the floor of the boxextending into the alcove, and a plurality of playing-pieces iittingWithin the boX and movable over its iioor, each of the playing piecesbeing marked to distinguish it from all of the others and the alcovebeing adapted to receive one of the playing-pieces.

remaining pieces tinguish 1t 2. In a device of the kind described incombination, a plurality of playing-pieces rectangular in shape and eachmarked to disfrom all of the others, and a box having an alcove in itsWall, the i'loor of' the box extending into the alcove and having aplurality of contiguous spaces each equal in size and shape to the baseof one of the playingpieces, one thereof being in the alcove and each ofthe others being marked to corre-- spond with one ofthe pieces.

SAMUEL F. RANDALL.

Witnesses:

CHARLES B. GrLLsoN, E. M. KLATCHER.

